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  2. Valentino's syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Valentino's syndrome is pain presenting in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen caused by a duodenal ulcer with perforation through the retroperitoneum. [1]It is named after Rudolph Valentino, an Italian actor, who presented with right lower quadrant pain in New York, which turned out to be a perforated peptic ulcer.

  3. Rovsing's sign - Wikipedia

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    Rovsing's sign, named after the Danish surgeon Niels Thorkild Rovsing (1862–1927), [1] is a sign of appendicitis.If palpation of the left lower quadrant of a person's abdomen increases the pain felt in the right lower quadrant, the patient is said to have a positive Rovsing's sign and may have appendicitis.

  4. Murphy's triad - Wikipedia

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    According to the British Medical Journal, Murphy's triad consists of "pain in the abdomen followed by nausea or vomiting, and general abdominal sensitiveness on the right side, followed by an elevated body temperature." Although the original notes on Murphy's triad includes four signs (the fourth being a rise in temperature), it may be noted ...

  5. Alvarado score - Wikipedia

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    The two most important factors, tenderness in the right lower quadrant and leukocytosis, are assigned two points, and the six other factors are assigned one point each, for a possible total score of ten points. [7] A score of 5 or 6 is compatible with the diagnosis of acute appendicitis.

  6. List of eponymous medical signs - Wikipedia

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    tenderness in the right lower quadrant increases when the patient moves from the supine position to a recumbent posture on the left side Rossolimo's sign: Grigory Ivanovich Rossolimo: neurology: pyramidal tract lesions: The Babinski sign – a reappraisal Neurol India 48 (4): 314–8. percussion of the tips of the toes causes exaggerated ...

  7. Markle's sign - Wikipedia

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    Markle's sign, or jar tenderness, is a clinical sign in which pain in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen is elicited by the heel-drop test (dropping to the heels, from standing on the toes, with a jarring landing). It is found in patients with localised peritonitis due to acute appendicitis. [1]

  8. Blumberg's sign - Wikipedia

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    Blumberg's sign (also referred to as rebound tenderness or Shchetkin–Blumberg's sign) is a clinical sign in which there is pain upon removal of pressure rather than application of pressure to the abdomen. (The latter is referred to simply as abdominal tenderness.) It is indicative of peritonitis.

  9. List of chronic pain syndromes - Wikipedia

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    Explanatory model of chronic pain. Chronic pain is defined as reoccurring or persistent pain lasting more than 3 months. [1] The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines pain as "An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage". [2]